BBB: Tell us 3 things not in your bio we don’t know about you that might make us leery of befriending you. LOL
GD: I think if you’re still here after reading “A dude who writes dark erotica” in the bio, I think we’re going to be fine.
Um, okay, three creepy things, let’s see. 1: I am unreasonably interested in what your particular kink is. 2: I wear Lycra more often than should be expected of a heterosexual male. 3:I am only about five years away from that special transformation from attractive (well I think so) mature man to creepy old pervert.
BBB: Do you have any strange writing habits (like standing on your head or writing in the shower)?
GD: Not that I can think of. I will say that after I finished Sapphire Blue I went to a bowling alley alone and played a couple of games, because something about finishing this book made me want to throw a heavy object repeatedly. But no, when I write I’m really just sitting down and writing. I will occasionally speak dialogue under my breath, and I can’t write if there’s a TV on or music playing, but none of that is all that weird.
BBB: Have you ever been in trouble with the law?
GD: Oh my God no! I’m so boring! *cough* I mean… Not YET! *cue theme music*
BBB: What actors from the PAST (not living now) would you choose to play some of your characters if Sapphire Blue were made into a movie or a TV show?
GD: Yikes. Not living now is tough, because Mara– the main character– is very much a modern woman, and it’s hard for me to imagine anyone from old Hollywood playing her. Davis could maybe be played by a young Jack Lemmon, although he is also very much a modern person. Now Argent Leeds… he would need an actor capable of being debonair and creepy at the same time. Cary Grant, maybe, although he might even be too socially adept. Anthony Perkins, except he’s too creepy and not debonair enough. Maybe I’ll stick with Cary Grant.
BBB: How do you keep track of your world building?
GD: World-building hasn’t been much of an issue, because for the most part I like to keep my novels as much in the real world as possible. All are set in the present, in this reality we all live in, but with one or two tiny alterations. In the Immortal books that tweak is the main character, an otherwise ordinary 60,000 man, and the idea that the “magical” beings we’re all familiar with (vampires, demons, etc) are real, but magic is not. In Fixer, it’s very much the real world, except the main character can see five seconds into the future. In Sapphire Blue, there actually is magic, but it’s extremely subtle, and limited to one collection of artifacts. All of the people in it are normal humans living in our world.
BBB: Please tell us more about Sapphire Blue and the storyline that drives it.
GD: It’s about Mara Cantor, a pretty young scholar working as an intern in a natural history museum, who becomes romantically/sexually entangled with Argent Leeds a rich museum benefactor and all around famous person. And I’m leery of over-describing at the risk of spoiling some of the surprises. There are issues of consent in the book that are impossible to miss or ignore, and I know a lot of readers are going to be uncomfortable. Oh, and there’s an orgy. A big-ass, I-don’t-know-how-many-pages orgy.
BBB: How many more books there be in this world?
GD: I don’t know yet. I think Mara’s story is done, and I’m not interested in following up on Argent Leeds. But there is at least one secondary character from Sapphire Blue who deserves her own book, so I think the next erotic novel I write will be for her. After that, who knows?
BBB: Did you do any kind of research to determine the details of your characters lives / lifestyles?
GD: No, I pretty much made it all up. Even the archeology stuff. The details on the Sumerians is 90% invented, and the 10% that wasn’t came from research I had done for Hellenic Immortal. I even made the Sumerian god Pazuzu a non-gender-specific god because it was easier on the storyline.
BBB: Are you a plotser or a pantser? or a Planster (a combo of both)
GD: I never know the answer to this question. Here’s what I do: I make up the plot as I write, and I write from the beginning and keep going until I get to the end. I don’t outline or do character sketches, I don’t write out-of-order, and I don’t end up with extra scenes. My first draft is probably someone else’s second or third draft. But none of that means I don’t plan ahead, and develop the plot before writing it down. What it means is all of my pre-writing and plotting is done and retained in my head.
BBB: What types of characters/creatures can readers expect in your world?
GD: Right now, I think human beings are plenty monstrous enough without having to worry about other creatures. That doesn’t mean I won’t play with a convention or two. Sapphire Blue was certainly me riffing on the idea of a vampire’s glamour, and I’ve got a notion or two on zombie lore I’d like to explore.
BBB: Do you ever come up with anything so wild that you scare yourself, that leaves you wondering where that came from?
BBB: What’s coming up for you in 2014?
GD: The third book in my Immortal series is going to be released in October: Immortal at the Edge of the World, and I just self-published a short thriller called Surviving Hector. I plan on writing another short story as G. Doucette– erotica, in other words– so look for that. I am also writing a blog weekly (more or less) for the Huffington Post’s Books section, and I’ve been covering a range of things including how to write a good sex scene. I might work on a romance for my next book, or that second erotic novel, I haven’t decided.
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